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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7776626, member: 110504&quot;]I&#039;m leaning more toward the side of [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER]; a little too much wear to warrant a VF; I&#039;d go more toward Fine+ than VF-.</p><p>(One liberating thing about mostly collecting medieval is that you can effectively throw grading out the window.&nbsp; Yeah, it&#039;s <i>all</i> subjective, but when it&#039;s as much about the strike as the wear, a line is crossed from &#039;subective&#039; to &#039;chaotic /on the level of magical thinking.&#039;)&nbsp; But as such, it&#039;s even wear, which is a major plus (have to envy you ancients folks for that).&nbsp; From here, given the current difficulties of the text, $39 is sounding like a very good price.</p><p>...Since it&#039;s been decades since I did ancients on a regular basis, I hope folks will indulge me to this extent.&nbsp; The first two denarii I ever got, as a kid, in a coin shop in Grand Central Station (I was 11, on a one-time summer vacation from the opposite coast), were a Republican one of Cipius, and a Hadrian, more worn than this, with Salus on the reverse.&nbsp; They were each --1973, y&#039;all-- $6.50.&nbsp; Between that and a magnificent penny of Edward III, I blew most of my available funds before we ever got on the plane to Europe.</p><p>[Edit:] While hammering away at this, [USER=105389]@bcuda[/USER] put it much more concisely (<i>and </i>cogently) than I could.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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